Example sentences of "never [vb past] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say , we never passed a hat shop . |
| 2 | He was a man whose personal life , though occasionally exigent , never became a siren song . |
| 3 | Straw plaiting was a widespread cottage industry in and around the Chiltern Hills , but it has left scarcely a sign on the landscape , for it never became a factory industry . |
| 4 | But Europe never became an election issue . |
| 5 | Give them the drawing number so we sent a transmittal note , course we never got a transmittal note back . |
| 6 | She never got a phone call about that job |
| 7 | No we never got the fire engine out we just er we just when we got |
| 8 | Now in those days you never got an album deal from a record company unless you had a hit single , but I made up my mind that the sort of stuff he had would make a very good album , so I went to Decca with that view in mind , trying to get an album deal , and did get a deal for him . |
| 9 | ‘ But I never mentioned the word cancer . |
| 10 | Although we never transformed the inquiry process into anything approaching a people 's tribunal , we did turn it into something much more accessible than many people had ever conceived . |
| 11 | I never seen a Christmas tree so big — it 's as high as a house . |
| 12 | Vamplew has worked out that almost half of the players registered with First Division clubs in 1910 never played a League match . |
| 13 | The Gulamalis never received the agreement form , the tenants ' deposit or the first month 's rent . |
| 14 | His parents never exchanged a cross word . |
| 15 | Taking the lead against the coalition was a small but implacable group of diehards ; they were never more than a few dozen in the Commons and , although they attracted shifting support on particular issues , they never threatened the coalition majority . |
| 16 | I never needed the alarm clock or Mum or Bri to hammer on my door . |
| 17 | The station was the product of French television deregulation five years ago , but it never established the audience size or advertising to sustain its costs and the debt that its owners had taken on to launch it . |
| 18 | She never repeated the goodwill gesture . |
| 19 | and that was the only one night we never took the video camera with us |
| 20 | When Ojomoh boards that plane on December 31 he steps into a new world , the elite strata of an elite sport — not bad for a lad who never saw a rugby ball until he was 13 , ca n't get a first team game and came close to being escorted to a plane by police . |
| 21 | ‘ And you never saw the Crocus List ? ’ |
| 22 | I never saw the mail robber , though Tom played with his children — and caught nits from them , to Nonni 's horror — and I got to know his sister , Elsie : a thin woman with stiff , blonde hair who was never without a cigarette stuck to the corner of her mouth . |
| 23 | The arrangements would be made and er oh well I never saw an oak coffin but we you 'd hear |
| 24 | He never won a Gold Cup or Grand National , but he won everything else . |
| 25 | They never completed the train journey to Penn Station . |
| 26 | Tory backbenchers who never liked the duopoly solution are determined to get the Energy department to unpick its handiwork , either by making National Power and PowerGen , more evenly sized companies or insisting that one or more new generating firms should be allowed to compete in the British market . |
| 27 | I never had a singing lesson in my life , it was just a natural thing for me . ’ |
| 28 | I never had a TV set until I bought one with my first lot of royalties and the only way we got the record player was because my dad won about £40 on the pools . |
| 29 | The tragedy is that , although many small settlements never had a railway station , the inter-small-town rail network has been destroyed nationally and the service is now effectively inter-city , so that ‘ the rural branch line is a thing of the past … ’ |
| 30 | I 'm saying years ago my old dad , he , he were eighty nine and he never had a blood test in his life . |